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This volume contains 10 essays by UK researchers and specialists in non-governmental organizations researching modern slavery, who examine the development of law, policy, and practice relating to modern slavery in the UK. They discuss the causes of slavery, the failure of the rule of law in enabling slavery to continue, and the reforms needed to reduce and eliminate slavery; UK policy responses to modern slavery and factors that influenced the development of the Modern Slavery Act 2015; the system of regulation and enforcement constructed around modern slavery; modern slavery legislation across the UK, including the Modern Slavery Act and the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Acts in Northern Ireland and Scotland; child trafficking; the situation of people on the Overseas Domestic Worker visa, to examine the limited options available to trafficked people through the National Referral Mechanism for identifying victims of trafficking; the criminalization of potential trafficked cannabis gardeners; the role of business in modern slavery; migrants who experience severe labor exploitation; and the transnational response to trafficking in a European context. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)